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what does the economy look like in the new year, wells fargo chief lou: chairman ben bernanke made a historic move sitting unemployment rate as a target for monetary policy. we'll be taking that up, talking with wells fargo chief economist john silv sylvia in moments, and announcing they will spend -- a month buying mortgage-backed security. what the market expected and stocks rallied a bit on the announcement, a little. then ben bernanke talked about the fiscal cliff that ended that rally, stocks coming off their highs, index, swung 102 points over second, and s&p finished where it began, nascar -- nazdaq down over 8 points, and trading on big board, busiest in the week, walmart a big mover, dropping retailer part of an overall weak group, best answer, profit taking with the sell-off walmart up, 18 -- almost 19ers in on the year, 10 year, yield rising to 1.69%, and crude market, up, joining me now, wells fargo chief economist, john silviia, 6.5% is target for fed chairman and the fed, that is the unemployment rate they want to hit, i have never heard of the fed doing this before. ha
what does the economy look like in the new year, wells fargo chief lou: chairman ben bernanke made a historic move sitting unemployment rate as a target for monetary policy. we'll be taking that up, talking with wells fargo chief economist john silv sylvia in moments, and announcing they will spend -- a month buying mortgage-backed security. what the market expected and stocks rallied a bit on the announcement, a little. then ben bernanke talked about the fiscal cliff that ended that rally,...
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ben bernanke's news conference starts at 12:15 p.m. eastern time. steve joins us in a few minutes with the preview from washington. >>> another story with big implications is michigan's decision to become a righ"right work" state. it would bar members from requiring to pay member dues. the governor signed the law. >> shouldn't unions be putting out the proposition workers want to join a union and shouldn't workers be able to make a choice their dollars are going to that union based on whether they're getting results that. 's what this is doing. that's why i view this as pro worker, not anti-union. >> it is viewed as a big blow to organized union that has seen membership decline across the country. dow opened higher by 56, nasdaq by 13 and s&p by a little more than 7, a gain half a percent across the board. in asia, higher across the board, not a lot. hang seng did well, higher by 181 points. europe still open at this hour, higher across the board. a gain for germany and quarter percent for the ftse, fairly flat where decide iing he will longer be a
ben bernanke's news conference starts at 12:15 p.m. eastern time. steve joins us in a few minutes with the preview from washington. >>> another story with big implications is michigan's decision to become a righ"right work" state. it would bar members from requiring to pay member dues. the governor signed the law. >> shouldn't unions be putting out the proposition workers want to join a union and shouldn't workers be able to make a choice their dollars are going to that...
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the podium waiting for ben bernanke to make his announcement. steve is inside that room and we will have live coverage of that event for you sccoming up as "street signs" comes up at 2. ceo of destination wealth management, i know you will be waiting to see how the fed chief elab rates on the process of coming to these particular targets. >> yeah, it will be fascinating as reported already. we have historic targets. something very specific that people have been screaming for. when is unwinding going to happen? he set the targets now. we will see what the language is. >> very quickly. what three stocks do you think would be a good play given the environment we're in. >> three quick names. first of all, master card. master card will continue to
the podium waiting for ben bernanke to make his announcement. steve is inside that room and we will have live coverage of that event for you sccoming up as "street signs" comes up at 2. ceo of destination wealth management, i know you will be waiting to see how the fed chief elab rates on the process of coming to these particular targets. >> yeah, it will be fascinating as reported already. we have historic targets. something very specific that people have been screaming for....
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it's ben bernanke's birthday. happy birthday, ben. "squawk box" begins right now. >>> good morning and welcome back to south carolina here on cnbc. i'm andrew ross sorkin along with joe kernen. becky is off today. dino kosof, he's going to have a lot to talk about when it comes to what mr. bernanke just said. later in the program, we'll talk to pimco's kneneal ashkari. >>> a surprise from ben bernanke, linking unemployment to monetary policy. rates will be staying where they are right now, which is close to zero, of course. until at the very least the jobless rate falls to 6.5%. we can only cross our fingers wherefore when that might be. ben bernanke says these changes will make the central bank more transparent adding they can only help the markets. the central bank ramped up its asset purchase program adding $40 billion to its $40 billion a month purchases of mortgage-backed bonds. he spoke about the objectives during wednesday's news conference. >> the asset purchases and the rate increases have different objectives. the asset purc
it's ben bernanke's birthday. happy birthday, ben. "squawk box" begins right now. >>> good morning and welcome back to south carolina here on cnbc. i'm andrew ross sorkin along with joe kernen. becky is off today. dino kosof, he's going to have a lot to talk about when it comes to what mr. bernanke just said. later in the program, we'll talk to pimco's kneneal ashkari. >>> a surprise from ben bernanke, linking unemployment to monetary policy. rates will be staying...
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what ben bernanke is doing with the bond market makes it too darn hard for me to figure out what to do with mortgage rates. i have to take a break here. >>> let's go to frederick in washington, please. >> caller: hi, jim, how you doing, bag booyah from bellevue, washington. go hawks. let's go microsoft. >> okay. microsoft does not yield enough yet to intrigue me. i do believe it will be a better stock in 2013 at some point. i have to believe some of that cycle for windows 8 kicks in. right now in no man's land. i don't like being in no-man's land. >>> rick in missouri now. >> caller: jim, thank you for taking my call. appreciate it. >> thank you. >> caller: my question today, i want to know if arch coal will remain a big lump of coal for 20 3. i bought it at 14. down to about 7. would like your insight. >> remember, on "ed ""mad mone don't care where a stock has been, we care where it's been. i like arch coal. >>> stewart in california, please. >> caller: jim, a big booyah for myself and my parents. i'm wondering how you think bank of america will do with the whole fiscal cliff situati
what ben bernanke is doing with the bond market makes it too darn hard for me to figure out what to do with mortgage rates. i have to take a break here. >>> let's go to frederick in washington, please. >> caller: hi, jim, how you doing, bag booyah from bellevue, washington. go hawks. let's go microsoft. >> okay. microsoft does not yield enough yet to intrigue me. i do believe it will be a better stock in 2013 at some point. i have to believe some of that cycle for windows 8...
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ben bernanke will feel it's his job to do whatever he can. that's the nature of the team, that's the nature of what they've been doing. are there any extra goodies that they might think of in your view? >> the extra goody they're talking about i would describe as operation twist. what they have been doing is driving down long-term rates, by essentially settling short-term treasuries and buying long-term treasuries. the possibility that steve just described, and it is a possibility, is that because they're running out of the short term, they will only buy the long term. that will certainly be an expansion. but the question is, will that expansion add a lot to the -- >> let me ask you about that. on a scale of 1 to 10, how powerful a tool is that? if they announce it today, mark? >> it has a significant psychological effect. but it's only psychological. it will be a long time before that would have any fundamental effect on the underlying economy. >> you know, mark, let me rather than going immediately to john on this question, let me ask you w
ben bernanke will feel it's his job to do whatever he can. that's the nature of the team, that's the nature of what they've been doing. are there any extra goodies that they might think of in your view? >> the extra goody they're talking about i would describe as operation twist. what they have been doing is driving down long-term rates, by essentially settling short-term treasuries and buying long-term treasuries. the possibility that steve just described, and it is a possibility, is...
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if you're ben bernanke, why would you throw a curveball at this hour. we'll see. that press conference, a little more than 24 hours from now. >> we're continuing e inine ini more on trip adviser. look at the cnbc realtime exchange. we did see the features point to a higher open. here at the big board, coca-col coca-cola -- [ bell ringing ] >> and ringing the bell there. trip adviser, interesting deal, because the pricing at which the shares were bought. >> you've got to remember, of course, you have a change in voting control. it had been controlled by barry diller, it will now be controlled by liberty media. they will own 22% of the economics of trib adviser, but 57% of the total votes of the company, effectively controlling the company. so any thoughts you might have as a shareholder in erms it of the future takeover premium in terms of changing control. well, for now, don't expect them to go to the price that john malone and liberty are paying here. that's quite a price, $62.52 a share. we'll see what their stock does. we anticipate it will move up. but nowhere
if you're ben bernanke, why would you throw a curveball at this hour. we'll see. that press conference, a little more than 24 hours from now. >> we're continuing e inine ini more on trip adviser. look at the cnbc realtime exchange. we did see the features point to a higher open. here at the big board, coca-col coca-cola -- [ bell ringing ] >> and ringing the bell there. trip adviser, interesting deal, because the pricing at which the shares were bought. >> you've got to...
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bernanke. >> absolutely. >> let's look at another area. >> can i add one more point? >> sure. >> when you look at it and larry summers was on this morning, whom i have great respect for, he had the piece from the imf study when you cut the deficit by 1%, what is the impact on the gdp. they didn't get into that this morning but if his numbers he's using 0.9 to 1.4, if you lose 2% to 3% of gdp you'll go to negative growth which will impact -- >> at the very least the wheels will be on the runway. >> absolutely. >> let's switch gears, mario draghi today, listen, i was so wrong and i don't know how long it will last but i give him credit, at least for this period of time, how long it lasts because there is no growth and recession in europe i can't answer but what were your observations on that press conference? >> last night when i wrote about it, mario draghi can put his feet up and have a stella and enjoy. he bought himself time. july 6th will be mario draghi's day of celebration because he stemmed the financial crisis in europe and bought time. berlusconi comes onto th
bernanke. >> absolutely. >> let's look at another area. >> can i add one more point? >> sure. >> when you look at it and larry summers was on this morning, whom i have great respect for, he had the piece from the imf study when you cut the deficit by 1%, what is the impact on the gdp. they didn't get into that this morning but if his numbers he's using 0.9 to 1.4, if you lose 2% to 3% of gdp you'll go to negative growth which will impact -- >> at the very...
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about the dollar as a result of the very aggressive policies that we've had from alan greenspan and ben bernanke, the dollar has lost about a third of its value over the last three years on the dollar index. does that mean that manufacturers like yourself will be forced to bring jobs back to america because now producing elsewhere and importing on that currency effect is now 30% more expensive? >> you know, in that case for us, that is not going to have a big impact. 80% or more of what we sell in the u.s. we already make in the u.s. we really believe in production and if you look at our business and all of the large markets around the world, we have established production basis. if anything, that's perhaps helped us a little bit because we do export about 15% of our u.s. production. overall the biggest impact that the change in currencies have had is really for us the brazilian and indian currencies which have devalued about 25% over the last year. the u.s. dollar change has not had a large impact on us. interesting to hear you talk about housing in this country. sherwin williams, depo
about the dollar as a result of the very aggressive policies that we've had from alan greenspan and ben bernanke, the dollar has lost about a third of its value over the last three years on the dollar index. does that mean that manufacturers like yourself will be forced to bring jobs back to america because now producing elsewhere and importing on that currency effect is now 30% more expensive? >> you know, in that case for us, that is not going to have a big impact. 80% or more of what...